[kwlug-disc] OT: wordpress.com email follower spam

[CrankyOldBugger]

The spammer can read your blog, right?  Then copy it to his own website and
try to pass it off as his own content.


On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 at 16:38 Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could be robots or trolls. Create enough interactions with real people to
> avoid detection algorithm, I think.
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> I help administrate a blog on wordpress.com . Over the past few weeks
>> I have been seeing a lot of follows by (very likely bogus) outlook.com
>> addresses:
>>
>> "sautermssonyad at outlook.com just followed (blog name)"
>>
>> Since these are probably spammers I should not take this cavalierly.
>> But I am not sure I understand the business model here. What can
>> spammers do once they have followed a blog? Following a blog does not
>> influence their ability (or not) to leave comments.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
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